See question below. Names can be changed when applying for naturalization. The naturalization application would be the first place to look. Otherwise, the name change is done in a court procedure,

Looking for help to contact Mexico City cemeteries and a volunteer to take an epitaph picture Neil Rosenstein

Lesley, Try searching British newspapers from that time, especially local papers from where Charlie Abrams lived. There may have been an article about the wedding. Many old newspapers are digitized

Trying to make contact with the family of Dr. Neftuli Zvi Avigdor (son of Abraham Boby of Mexico City), first cousin of David, Morton (Mordechai) and Merrill (Mayer) Avigdor, descendants of the

My family is from Brest-Litovsk. According to one of the family member's Naturalization papers which were prepared in 1903, it clearly indicates he was born in "Saletca" a town in Poland in 1873. I

Is the Zaidman family name included as residents of Kopaygorod in the late19th and early 20th centuries?

Does anyone know how to find death records from Baku in the 1920's. There does not seem to be much out there about Ajerbijan Marlene, I will send your email to a friend who has an interest in Baku. We

I'm sorry to say the answer is no. Joel

Yes. In Town Finder search for a town in the district or government you want. Then in the boxes on the right you will see underlined district and "province" names. Click on the the district or

I'm so grateful for the work all the JewishGen volunteers do in indexing files. For some indexes - at the moment, I'm looking at the Máramaros Vital Records Births index - the images don't seem to be

Does this include merchants from Malat/Moletai?

Try contacting Baruch Huber from Ungvar. His email :huberbelay@... All the best Mark Friedman

Myshmar is a Hebrew Word that means "Watch". In the Talmud it refers to either a Cohen (mainly) or Levite (also) but it has come to mean those "on guard." In fact, in the Yeshiva Movement, studying

I just learned why my research for LOBEL in Roman, Romania dead-ended. The name LOBEL that my uncle assured me always had been Lobel, was not accurate. E.G., mostly it was first name and then son of

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Is anyone familiar with the given name, “Mecie”? Is it a male or female name? Is it a diminutive? Thank you. Richard Stower Yarmouth, Maine Researching: SECHESTOWER (or variations), THAU,

Does anyone know how to find death records from Baku in the 1920's. There does not seem to be much out there about Ajerbijan.

I left France from Barcelona to Lisbon and eventualy New York in August 1941 -- Pierre M Hahn, San Francisco

I am writing a book about my grandfather Lewis Ziff born in 1902 in Edinburgh. His sister Sarah Ziff, born 1898 in Edinburgh nicknamed Sadie married the British amatuer golf champion Charlie Abrams

For Ukraine, one way is to go to the Ukraine Research Division. There is a map showing the various gubernias. Click on one and you'll see a map of the gubernia and a list of the districts and main